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Originally Posted by Rococo
It's interesting that so much of the rhetoric around gun ownership centers on self-defense and the importance of guns as a bulwark against tyranny. The latter point was highly relevant in the late 18th century, but much less relevant now.
The reality is the most NRA members own guns not because they believe it is a necessity but rather because they enjoy it. And most people like nucularburro place minimal value on the value of enjoying guns, especially when measuring that enjoyment against the loss of life caused by gun violence.
I would add that many US gun owners, the types of which who like to pose with their guns, are also both terrified and glory seeking.
I know American's who live is really safe areas who brag they sleep with the various weapons under their bed. They are both afraid but also have some fantasy of invaders breaching their home, and them delivering to that criminal their due and thus being the hero that defended their family. I think it is a legit fetish for many of them.
But the reality is that they will end up killing their family members far more or giving their family members the tools to kill each other or themselves far more.
And there seems to be no way to educate them that their fear of 'others', should be much smaller, in almost all neighbourhoods, then their fear of interfamily harm, they are bringing in to their homes.